Dalia Genovaitė Mažeikytė

Born on 17 July 1943 in Roviškėlės, Rokiškis region. Painter, graphic artist. The history of Lithuanian graphic art will remember Dalia Genovaitė Mažeikytė as a painter of colours. After graduating from the Graphic Art Department of Vilnius Academy of Arts in 1968, she already exhibited etchings in 1970, supplemented by inclusions of other shades (the cycle "The Fans’ Mountain Rhythms"). Since then, almost all of Mažeikytė's graphic artworks, with the exception of some lithographs and drawings, have been colouristic. Her expressive and symbolically meaningful colours rise above the daily life, speak of the inseparable connection of man and nature with eternity, the opening spaces and their vibrations, the flow of time, the constant dynamics and change of life, the free flight of feelings, the wisdom and experience of renewal of spirit. It is an intellectual, poetic and spontaneous creation that evokes the intuitive gaze.

Here is how the author speaks about her creation: 'For me, creation is a way of spiritual development and a way of life, and I have come to love the various techniques that allow me to reveal and reflect that unique presence of beauty, that fierce desire to improve, to understand the world, to know with a spiritual gaze that warmth of feelings, that heat, that space, that fire of thoughts. Through the various colours, their combinations, through the half-tones of colours, shapes, lines, spots, smaller or bigger structures, new and new layers and symbols and signs hidden in human nature are revealed. And then nothing matters anymore, how strong you are as a human being and as an artist, what matters is only that flight, that vertigo and joy, that freedom, that inner sense and vision that intertwines and becomes life in life and the force that holds the seam of life. There is no materiality of form, no painfulness, no shadows, no oppressive darkness, only colours, movements, symbolic formations, everything is joyful, there is no sadness, no significance, no wealth, no fear, no false pride".

The paintings in the Lithuanian Museum of Ethnocosmology delight and surprise visitors.

Prepared by Jolanta Slavinskienė, Museum Manager